High pressure studies of the rotor-stator compound C60-cubane.

• Insertion of cubane (C8H8) into the octahedral voids of the C60 lattice leads to the formation of an interesting rotor-stator compound which can be converted into a C60 co-polymer by heating. We have treated a number of C60C8H8 samples for up to 3 h each in the range 380-875 K under pressures up to 2 GPa. The resulting materials were investigated by Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. Depending on treatment conditions, at least five different structural phases can be found. In addition to the four structural phases observed at atmospheric pressure and different temperatures we find that a new polymeric state is created at pressures above 1 GPa, and we tentatively identify its structure as pseudo-orthorhombic. The cubic-orthorhombic phase transition line is found to have a slope of 295 K GPa-1, much larger than the slope of the fcc-sc line in pure C60.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Den kondenserade materiens fysik (hsv//swe)

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C60

cubane

rotor-stator compound

co-polymer

high pressure

Raman spectroscopy

X-ray diffraction

phase diagram

polymer

Condensed matter physics

Kondenserade materiens fysik

fysik

Physics

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